ANALYZING LAND USE LAND COVER AND DEFORESTATION IN THE REDD plus AREA, CENTRAL KALIMANTAN PROVINCE, INDONESIA

A mitigation named reducing emission from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) has been developed as one of the most cost-effective strategies to tackle climate change due to forest loss. Timely and accurate forest data are required for REDD+ programs to succeed. A series of multi-temporal Landsat imageries obtained during the period from 1995 to 2015 were used to evaluate deforestation in Central Kalimantan REDD+ boundaries. By using support vector machine (SVM) classification method, the LULC types was mapped with a kappa coefficient greater than 0.8 facilitated a reliable interpretation of LULC changes. In 1995, the forest occupied the total area at around 72.6% while it decreased dramatically to a level of 59.5% and 53.8% in 2005 and 2015. The deforestation in the REDD+ project area in the two decades from 1995-2005 and 2005-2015 was 321.2 and 131.1 thousand hectares.